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Archived: Royal Mencap Society - Domiciliary Care Services - North London

1st Floor Athena House, 66a London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5AZ (020) 8545 6940

Provided and run by:
Royal Mencap Society

All Inspections

27 September 2013

During a routine inspection

As part of this inspection we sent out 61 questionnaires to people who used the service and their representatives. A total of 11 questionnaires were returned to us. We also met with three people who used the service and we spoke with two people's relatives. Most people who used the service or their representatives told us they were satisfied with the care and support they received. People said "Staff take me out in the community", "staff support me with cooking" ,"the staff support me with shopping" and "the staff are good". A relative of a person who used the service said "Staff always help people to be independent".

As part of this inspection we visited one of the agency's supported living houses. We observed staff interacted with people in a polite and respectful manner.

Staff we spoke with demonstrated they were of the agency's safeguarding adults from abuse procedures. They also told us they had received safeguarding training which was regularly updated. People who used the service told us they felt safe.

Staff were supported to attend training and development and they were regularly appraised and supervised to monitor their practice. The agency demonstrated that they had effective systems in place to monitor the quality of the service. People who used the service told us they were asked for their views about the service.